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smoking has been completely Tor
hidden on any part of Cincinnati's
horse cars.
The New York EUening Post fig
ures the cost of labor strikes for tho
last year at $10,OOO,OOO.
"A lady being questioned in court
the other day as to why she had
changed her religion, stated she had
done so because, being separated from
her husband, she determined to avoid
meeting him in the next world.
Columbus, Ga, is the only city in
the South that has no morning news
paper. Persistent lovers there do moi
have to bride the carrier; if they make
it square with the milkman they can
stay till it is almost time for breakfast.
-2onlerUiLle Journal
AT famous water-cure some odd
forms of cure are whey, buttermilk and
strawberry. Whey is prescribed for
affections of the chest, buttermilk for
certain diseases of the stomach and
strawberries to purify the blood. The
buttermilk and strawberries are favor
tie remedies.
Jonathan Houstin, ragged old
man, of Decatur. Ind, died recently,
and the authorities ordered his clothes
to be burned. Before the order was
carried out the rags were examined,
and 5000 in currency and 81, 800 in GER
tifcates of deposit to the Adams Coun-
ty Bank were found.
Lovers of the waltz may celebrate
its centenary. The first dance which
could be described as waltz was in
troduced to tlN public in an opera at
Vienna in 1887 by one Vicente Martin
y Solar Commonly called Martini 10
Spagnuolo), who was a popular COM
poser at the court of Joseph ii.
"A water-rat weighing probably
more than two pounds was seen to go
to brood of chickens and seize one.
The hen chased the rat and desperate
fight ensued, the hen eventually sue
ceeding in killing its foe and rescuing
the chicken. The latter appeared little
the worse for its strange experience.
In Tangipahoa Parish, La, is an
organization called the "White Horse
men," The members wear white
masks and white uniforms, cover their
horses with white cloths, and devote
considerable attention to negroes who
are suspected of stealing. The last
one they whipped had just robbed a
smokehOuse.
The hackmen of Victoria, British
Columbia, subscribed 500 toward the
celebration of the Queens jubilee at
that place, but the hack ordinance was
published in the. ColoniSt, and they as
serted that this, by apprising visitors OF
their rights, reduced the hackmen's
profits, and they refused to pay the
money subscribed.
According to an analysis made by
a chemist in the employ of the New
York World only twenty-six per cent
of the milk sold in that city is adulter
ated by the sellers. 1t is the retailer and
the hotel and restaurant people who
give it that pale blue tint so familiar ia
all who have the hardihood to call for {
glass.-DetroH Free Press.
Ida Boles, who works at Reading
hotel, arose the other morning with 1
singing sensation in her head, fol
lowed by terrible headache. Sh,
went to physician, who removed from
her ear an ugly-looking night bug
about one-third of an inch long TIL
insect was one of the bugs often seel
flying in the vicinity of strong lights a
night.
"A valuable mare in England re
Gently gave birth to a foal. A fain
line indicated the position of the eye
lids, but the animal was apparentl.
I without eyes. An incision across eacl
eyelid was made, and the foal immedi
+ ately its eyes were opened recognize,
q its dam. During a period of twenty
| three years the veterinary surgeon ha
{ not met with such a case.
a -Overgaiters are again fashionable
: 1t is correct to have several shades, aC
y cording to the part of the country 20
are going to for the summer. To b
sure the shades are correct, send to tn
clerks of the various hotels you inten
to stop at for samples of the dust foun
a on the road in front of the hotel. TAX
K these samples to your shoemaker an
y have the overgaiters made to match.